Watch out for Debian. There isn't a Lilypond in Testing (Stretch) AFAIK. It's because they've removed the old scheme version. I develop in Testing in the hope that by the time I get around to releasing anything, it will be compatible with Stable :) Stable released rather infrequently, but I use it on our servers and it is very, well, *stable*.
It's easy to install the Stable lilypond debian package on a Testing Debian box, fortunately. Debian is my favourite distro: I've tried others but always returned. Shame about the scheme thing, but it will sort itself out sooner or later (if it hasn't already!). I guess the clue's in the distribution name: "Testing" ;) Nick/. On Friday, 23 December 2016 22:37:32 GMT David Wright wrote: > On Sat 24 Dec 2016 at 13:06:23 (+1000), Craig Dabelstein wrote: > > Hi Lilyponders, > > > > Just a quick question. I'm taking the plunge and moving to Linux. Which > > distro would you recommend for running Lilypond and Frescobaldi? > > I don't know where you're moving from, but I think you should choose > your distribution on what you and your computer find most comfortable > to use. > > Assuming you're coming from, say, windows or a mac, you would probably > run a Desktop Environment, in which case the choice of DE could be as > important as the distribution. > > OTOH with an older machine that's past being able to run windows, > Frescobaldi should run happily on X and the simplest of Window > Managers, like fvwm for example (and maybe a DE too). > > The version of LP that the distribution supports can be made > irrelevant by downloading it/them from the lilypond.org website, > and I assume the same goes for F. (Debian stable, currently jessie, > will always bundle comparatively old versions of software.) > So I would say that you should sort out your platform first. > > (I wasn't aware of oddities with OpenSuse Leap 42.1, nor whether these > involved only its bundled versions or all versions.) > > Cheers, > David. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
